Rails - Nov 2010 - Rails 3 - Handle Incoming Messages (Allowing Users to reply to email notifications)

Hello,

Right now my app sends out email notifications. I''d like to allow the
user to reply directly to the email, which then gets ingested by my
app and inserted into the database.

Are there any Rails gems, services, tutorials that can point me in the
right direction.

Also, probably need to make the reply-to email have a UID, replyto--
UID-9IKiO1iGCm/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, so I don''t have to rely on
the from (sender).

What do you think?

Thanks

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Have you seen this: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:40 PM, CuriousNewbie
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wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Right now my app sends out email notifications. I''d like to allow
the
> user to reply directly to the email, which then gets ingested by my
> app and inserted into the database.
>
> Are there any Rails gems, services, tutorials that can point me in the
> right direction.
>
> Also, probably need to make the reply-to email have a UID, replyto--
> UID-9IKiO1iGCm/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, so I don''t have to
rely on the from (sender).
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks
>
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Thanks Brian. I have. That URL covers sending emails really well. But
reeving, creating UUID in the reply address, and handling scalability
on Heroku are topics it lacks. Given this is a real trendy thing to do
these days, I was hoping to leverage someone''s thoughts on the
process.

Thoughts?

On Nov 15, 1:46 pm, Brian Troutwine
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wrote:
> Have you seen this:http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:40 PM, CuriousNewbie
<bhellm...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > Right now my app sends out email notifications. I''d like to
allow the
> > user to reply directly to the email, which then gets ingested by my
> > app and inserted into the database.
>
> > Are there any Rails gems, services, tutorials that can point me in the
> > right direction.
>
> > Also, probably need to make the reply-to email have a UID, replyto--
> > U...-9IKiO1iGCm/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, so I don''t have
to rely on the from (sender).
>
> > What do you think?
>
> > Thanks
>
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CuriousNewbie wrote in post #961680:
> Thanks Brian. I have. That URL covers sending emails really well. But
> reeving,
Not possible with Rails alone AFAIK (at least not easily so).
> creating UUID in the reply address,
The reply address is just a string. You can do all the usual string 
operations on it.
> and handling scalability
> on Heroku are topics it lacks.
What about scalability?
> Given this is a real trendy thing to do
> these days, I was hoping to leverage someone''s thoughts on the
> process.
"Leverage" someone''s thoughts?  What?

>
> Thoughts?
Well, you''ll need Procmail or something to retrieve the mail and send
it
to your Rails app. Then you can have Rails take it from there...

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Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote in post #961688:
> CuriousNewbie wrote in post #961680:
>> Thanks Brian. I have. That URL covers sending emails really well. But
>> reeving,
>
> Not possible with Rails alone AFAIK (at least not easily so).
>
Or maybe it is now.  Anyway, http://lmgtfy.com?q=rails+receive+email 
appears to yield lots of useful resources.

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dear all, 
This may sound stupid, but I''m confused in creating the model
relationship.

I set these 4 models:

ComUser < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :DefKelamin
   belongs_to :DefUserRole
   belongs_to :DefJabatan
Migration:
    create_table :com_users do |t|
    t.timestamps
    t.references :def_jabatan, :null => false
    t.integer :def_kelamin_id, :null => false
    t.references :def_user_role, :null => false
    t.column :username,''varchar(20)'', :null => false
    t.column :password,''varchar(20)'', :null => false
    end

DefJabatan < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_one:ComUser
Migration:
    create_table :def_jabatans do |t|
    t.timestamps
    t.column :jabatan,''varchar(20)'', :null => false
    end

DefUserRole
   has_one:ComUser
Migration:
    create_table :def_user_roles do |t|
    t.timestamps
    t.column :role,''varchar(20)'', :null => false
    t.string :description, :null => false
    t.string :icon
    end

DefKelamin < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_one :ComUser
Migration:
    create_table :def_kelamins do |t|
    t.timestamps
    t.column :kelamin,''varchar(10)'', :null => false
    end

In the controller, I put a simple query:
    @users = ComUser.find(:first)

and in the view, i simply put a object debug:
<%=debug(@users)%>

and I get this:

--- !ruby/object:ComUser 
attributes: 
  def_jabatan_id: "1"
  created_at: 2010-11-16 04:31:35
  def_user_role_id: "1"
  gsm: "-"
  updated_at: 2010-11-16 04:31:35
  alamat: "-"
  username: admin
  id: "1"
  def_kelamin_id: "1"
  password: admin
  online_status: "2"
attributes_cache: {}
I''m getting a feeling that I didn''t set the relationship
right, because i don''t
see any attributes from the model started with Def-something that i create 
above..
Am I missing something here? I''ve been staying wake all night to sort
this thing
out, with no success.
I even tries to alter the table by implicitly put a foreign key in the table for
ComUser model using sql statements, and the debug result is still the same.
How can i make this relationship work?

Thanks 

Regards,
Arga



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arga aridarma wrote in post #961693:
> dear all,
> This may sound stupid, but I''m confused in creating the model
> relationship.
[...]

Please don''t hijack threads.

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eh?
what do you mean by hijack the threads?

Regards,
Arga



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arga aridarma wrote in post #961693:
> dear all,
> This may sound stupid, but I''m confused in creating the model
> relationship.
[...]

Please don''t hijack threads.

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He''s suggesting that if you want to ask a new question, you create a
new subject line and post a separate email. Keeps it easier for everyone to
follow the content for a given topic.

FWIW, I''m not jumping in with an opinion on whether your request was
relevant to the original thread or not - wasn''t following it. Just
describing what people usually mean when they say "hijacking threads"
and aren''t talking about some kind of weird concurrency bug :)

Best Wishes,
Peter

On Nov 15, 2010, at 6:22 PM, arga aridarma wrote:
> eh?
> what do you mean by hijack the threads?
> 
> Regards,
> Arga
> 
> 
> 
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 6:12:15
> Subject: [Rails] Re: model relationship fails?
> 
> arga aridarma wrote in post #961693:
>> dear all,
>> This may sound stupid, but I''m confused in creating the model
>> relationship.
> [...]
> 
> Please don''t hijack threads.
> 
> Best,
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Ah, sorry. I wasn''t aware that there is already a thread called
"model
relationship fails?" before.
So, I will restart my question in the new email. Hopefully this time, it does 
not hijack another thread.

Thanks

regards,
Arga



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Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 6:32:49
Subject: Re: [Rails] Re: model relationship fails?

He''s suggesting that if you want to ask a new question, you create a
new subject
line and post a separate email. Keeps it easier for everyone to follow the 
content for a given topic.

FWIW, I''m not jumping in with an opinion on whether your request was
relevant to
the original thread or not - wasn''t following it. Just describing what
people
usually mean when they say "hijacking threads" and aren''t
talking about some
kind of weird concurrency bug :)

Best Wishes,
Peter

On Nov 15, 2010, at 6:22 PM, arga aridarma wrote:
> eh?
> what do you mean by hijack the threads?
> 
> Regards,
> Arga
> 
> 
> 

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On 16 Nov 2010, at 00:58, arga aridarma wrote:
> Ah, sorry. I wasn''t aware that there is already a thread called
"model
> relationship fails?" before.
> So, I will restart my question in the new email. Hopefully this  
> time, it does
> not hijack another thread.
You misunderstood.

When you press "Reply" on a thread with a completely different subject
(in your case "Rails 3 - Handle Incoming Messages (Allowing Users to  
reply to email notifications)") and delete the text and subject to  
replace with your own, most e-mail clients will still consider your  
message part of the thread (since there are hidden headers that you  
haven''t gotten rid off). Next time just click "New Message".


Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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